Socio-Economic Sands (Love Company), Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers (France), 2023
Sands Murray-Wassink
A cult queer personality on the Amsterdam art scene for almost twenty years, Sands Murray-Wassink (born in 1974 in Topeka, Kansas, USA. Lives in Amsterdam) is a painter, body artist and bipolar writer, perfume collector, strongly influenced by the multiple manifestations and evolutions of intersectional feminist queer art of which the artists Carolee Schneemann, Hannah Wilke and Adrian Piper are the essential references.
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I'm Proud of Myself !, 1996, 22 framed photographs, wood table 17 x 12.5 x 45.5cm. (6 3/4×4 7/8×17 7/8 in). Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
My God, 2002, Pen and marker on paper framed by the artist with museum glass 59 x 42 cm (23 1/4 x 16 1/2 in)
Institutions Are Questionable, 2018, Acrylic and graphite on thin blue cotton 300 x 140 cm (118 1/8×55 1/8 in)
This Way Murray-Wassink, diez, Amsterdam (The Netherlands), 2025
This Way Murray-Wassink, diez, Amsterdam (The Netherlands), 2025
Antagonistic -- Joan Mitchell Horse Platform -- I mean business (The Eva Hesse / Michelangelo Challenge), Frieze, London (UK), 2024
GAY, 2002, Acrylic, spray paint and cigarettes on canvas 24 x 30 cm (9 1/2×11 3/4 in)
Anal Collage (Pride & Joy), 2020, C-print photos glued on canvas and draped fabric used by the artist in a performance 200 x 100 cm (78 3/4×39 3/8 in)
Socio-Economic Sands (Love Company), Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers (France), 2023
You Are Your Own Institution , 2014, Acrylic on paper 63 x 52 cm (24 3/4×20 1/2 in)